[munk-a]

I cannot conceive of how being able to view someone carries an equal value for a person as a week or two in Cancun chilling - or how they can spend money that easily that took them weeks of their life to earn through labour[1].

[1] There's a segment of the population that I'm ignoring those that are either trust fund babies or useless economic leeches, when those people blow 100k on a car that they immediate crash I just shrug - but I know a lot of the people following these cams are actually working people (probably white collar, but still actually working for a living).

[officeplant]

I'm friends with a fairly well off single guy who has admitted a great deal of his spending to me at times. Keep in mind he's a steadily working guy in oil field inspections which pays close to $300k a year, which is pretty damn good in our poor area in the southern US.

According to him in the last year he's spent $18K+ in clash of clans alone and its not the only mobile game he plays. I've watched him drop thousands in a single night on cam girls when he strangely invited me to come along for the private viewing. He's paid for cam girls to come over for a week or more to his house. (nice house, nice looking guy tbh). He's dropped $30K on legos along in the last two years because he wants a lego room in his house. This is just a few of the things he's admitted and shown me the spending records on.

As a single guy in his 30's he has extreme amounts of expendable income for how cheap it is to live in our area. It blows my mind the money he spends on things. The Lego purchases alone were more than my last year's take home pay. I can't really fault him for using his money as he see's fit given he's a self made man who worked his way up from an extremely poor area.

[munk-a]

Sorry, to clarify - 300k is a pay rate so far beyond what most people make that I'd consider it to fall under my caveat. Any person who is making enough money to be replaced with a well compensated manager leading three entry or low mid-level pay (120k for the manager, 60k each for the team member) is... sort of astounding. I don't know what level of productivity you'd need to hit to rationally be compensated at that level while other people get so little.

And to clarify a bit more, 11k for a person making 300k a year is just a single week's take home, so maybe a more measured response is just that this is equivalent (for a person making 300k to a person making 60k) as blowing 1k at vegas on a weekend.